China, true to form, has found the resources to arrest parents whose children were killed in last month's earthquake. The parents accuse the authorities of corruption.
This story is not dissimilar to any other story on Chinese corruption, shoddy workmanship, arrest, terror, or how little the West will care.
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Who the f*** do you think you are judging people you piece of sh***...er...um...I mean, good entry.
So much for freedom to assemble. How sad for these parents to deal with the loss of their children and now insulted by a government that should have showed care and compassion.
Hear, hear.
What is there left to say about the "leadership" in China? They don't give a crap about their own people, the environment, world peace/international relations, or anything that matters.
Their new "business" class, or semi-affluent "middle class" is just as bad, if not worse than their "leadership." Any idiot could become a millionaire if they were allowed to start a business, pay workers 5 cents an hour, use pitifully cheap, poor quality raw materials and then just vent their toxic by-products into the air or future drinking water. It's just that most of us have enough sophistication to know that we should be ashamed of making money that way, rather than tooling around in a Jaguar or BMW in someone else's country expecting the locals to be impressed by our "success." Some of their own contractors/businessmen built with these crummy raw materials that collapsed like a house of cards and took thousands of lives. Some of their own manufacturers/businessmen created and sold these flawed, crappy building supplies. The Chinese "government" took its usual number of wise steps to prevent these violations.
How guilty do these businessmen and government officials feel? Since their success and the Chinese career world are not merit-based, it is likely that they are not even clever enough to realize and say to themselves: "Damn, in a number of ways, many, many of those deaths are MY fault!" What are they saying? Probably, "I'm glad it wasn't me."
The arrests of grieving parents who might criticize those with unearned political power and economic clout is par for the course with what is really an unsophisticated, 2nd to 3rd World country whose entire economic rise is nothing more than a blend of various forms of theft. The story of the world economy in recent years:
1. Western scientist discovers/invents something with medical, technological, or manufacturing value. It costs $1000 for one test tube full, but he HAS discovered/invented something.
2. Western engineer develops a way to produce the new thing for $50 a test tube, or $20 a test tube instead of $1,000 a test tube.
3. Chinese "businessmen" (i.e. sweatshop/slave owners) leap to manufacture the new thing and can do it more cheaply than entrepreneurs in other nations by not paying workers, not meeting even a minimum of environmental standards and utilizing inferior, often unsafe, raw materials. As a result, manufacturing operations and a lot of the profits go to "businessmen" and a nation that have, in no way, earned the success.
4. The United States, the UK, Germany, Australia, France, the Netherlands and many other nations do not put an outright embargo against these products in place. For some inexplicable reason, the unearned, non-merit-based growth is allowed to spiral onwards and upwards for the nation that hasn't earned it. The dirty, broken-toothed ignoramus goes to buy a new Mercedes with his "profits."
The arresting of the parents mentioned in the story is a clear case of even more of the building falling on us and our leadership doing nothing: "Damn, is it raining bricks all of a sudden?" I would not allow them to purchase Tar Sands oil, I would not allow their products to reach our shores and I would certainly not have allowed them to host the Olympic Games.
BTW, I am an occasional visitor to this blog and would like to see you just delete any comments that pottymouth might try to post. He's not capable of dialogue at the level you are aspiring to maintain in this fine blog.
THX
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